Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.

Technology area: Computing & Software

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 82 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 8 examiners and 8 art units, indicating separate examiner and art-unit assignments for each pending matter.

DIVECHA, KAMAL B is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The distribution shows no examiner concentration, so matter-specific review is the appropriate organizing principle for the reported portfolio.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

3
Hard (38%)
3
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (38%)
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
88% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WONG, HUEN 1 60.3% +46.2%
FARROW, FELICIA 1 58.5% +34.6%
THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 1 86.8% +7.8%
COLAN, GIOVANNA B 1 72.5% +29.1%
POLLOCK, GREGORY A 1 11.0% +12.5%
HALES, BRIAN J 1 77.9% +29.3%
CADY, MATTHEW ALAN 1 0.0% +0.0%
SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 1 33.3% +100.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18739590 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK SERVICE ENTERPRISE COMPUTER GROUP PERMISSIONING THAMMAVONG, PRASITH —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18404289 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE LEARNING SERVICE USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL POLLOCK, GREGORY A 23d overdue
18049875 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION VALUE-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 11d overdue
18189527 INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPH SYSTEM HALES, BRIAN J —
18189543 INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS CADY, MATTHEW ALAN —

Interview Candidates (6)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18657973 QUERY MANAGEMENT TOOL AND METHODS COLAN, GIOVANNA B 37d overdue
18404289 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE LEARNING SERVICE USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL POLLOCK, GREGORY A 23d overdue
18049875 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION VALUE-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 11d overdue
18969042 DISTRIBUTED QUERY EXECUTION AND AGGREGATION INCLUDING HISTORICAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WONG, HUEN 20d
18763325 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK FARROW, FELICIA 22d
18189527 INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPH SYSTEM HALES, BRIAN J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2168 1
2437 1
2137 1
2165 1
3691 1
2125 1
2145 1
2187 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18969042 DISTRIBUTED QUERY EXECUTION AND AGGREGATION INCLUDING HISTORICAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WONG, HUEN 2168 §112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Dec 04, 2024
18763325 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK FARROW, FELICIA 2437 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18739590 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK SERVICE ENTERPRISE COMPUTER GROUP PERMISSIONING THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2024
18657973 QUERY MANAGEMENT TOOL AND METHODS COLAN, GIOVANNA B 2165 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18404289 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE LEARNING SERVICE USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL POLLOCK, GREGORY A 3691 §112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18189527 INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPH SYSTEM HALES, BRIAN J 2125 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 24, 2023
18189543 INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS CADY, MATTHEW ALAN 2145 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 24, 2023
18049875 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION VALUE-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 2187 §101§103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. have?

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. applications?

Huen Wong has the most, with 1 of Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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